In terms of overall migration FROM D3, UV is by far the easiest route - especially if you have "interesting" dictionary items.
I remember a company wanted to buy our R5 application back in the mid-90's BUT it had to run under Unidata. We tried to sway this decision, BUT they already had UD in place. Anyway, the client outsourced the conversion directly to Unidata (as it was then, pre-Ardent), who speced it out as a 2 week project .... at the end of 2 weeks the timeline went out to a month, and at the end of that they were talking 6 months. Luckily the prospect had negotiated a fixed price with Unidata - and to cut a long story short, our R5 conversion into Unidata never happened, AND the prospect installed another system under jBASE !! (obviously my selling skills need improving). A few months later we did a conversion to UV - was all over in a day, another week to work out some spooler issues. YMMV, but as others have said, UD was always more like PR1ME Information than Pick. My bottom line for you, regardless of which platform is "better", I believe that your easiest migration would be to UV, and I don't think there are any "critical" things you would miss from UD (except for the RFS) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Piers Angliss >Sent: Saturday, 25 September 2004 12:41 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [U2] Comparison Unidata and Universe > >IMHO..... > >They are very similar, with hundreds of differences - whether any are >significant to you depends on where you're coming from and what you want to >do. > >They are both M/value (Pick-like, post-relational, NFNN ...) multi-user >databases running on *nix or Windows servers. > >They have an embedded programming language (a form of Basic), a proprietary >command and enquiry interface and support for SQL. > >There are some differences in the way in which they administer files >(tables) and in the syntax of the user interface. > >UniVerse has a number of flavours (Pick, Prime Information, vanilla...) >with >syntactical differences to assist users who have migrated from particular >platforms. Unidata does not have such differences. > >Both provide support for client-server architecture, xml, web, odbc etc ... >and there are plenty on this list who can answer specific questions on >these >areas. > >I switch between the two as a multi-site developer three or four times a >day >and barely notice it most of the time, but if I were a single-site >developer >looking to maximise performance or functionality of a single system I'm >sure >I'd be doing things on one that the other did differently. > >Where are you coming from and where do you wish to go (probably in your >original post but I no longer have that, sorry) > >Piers > >- > >Yes, it does. But we've strayed considerably from my original question >which was: > >What's the difference between UniVerse and UniData? > >-- >Bob Little >Graphik Dimensions, Ltd. >High Point, NC >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.770 / Virus Database: 517 - Release Date: 27/09/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.770 / Virus Database: 517 - Release Date: 27/09/2004 ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
